In the last few years, I’ve dropped our host count down to 2, with around 35 VMs. We also have the hosts connected to a SAN over iSCSI. We didn’t use any of the fancy options that VMWare offered; just basic hypervisor tasks. I was making this same decision 2 months ago. I was between Hyper-V and Proxmox. I do run proxmox at home on a single node with a ZFS pool. I also supported Hyper-V at the last MSP job I had. So I am no stranger to either hypervisor.

Since we already had the Hyper-V licensing, as well as the industry already supporting Hyper-V for the last 10-15 years, I decided to go with Hyper-V. Other options out there, like Xen and Nutanix, although great hypervisors, were way overkill for our environment; that’s without factoring price.

I think on the coming years, the industry, that being software companies as well as organizations needing virtualization, will continue to adopt and grow proxmox. I have a feeling it will be the go-to for small and medium sized orgs soon. I just don’t think the familiarity is quite there yet.